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Show Swindlers Collect $500,000 in Fraud Gullible Americans hav paid swindlers swin-dlers 1500.000 for share of what Ihc United States government purportedly purported-ly owed tha estate of the late Charles Durkee, one-time governor of the territory ter-ritory of Utah, a United Press dispatch dis-patch aald Monday. I Th victims, none of whoa names ha been disclosed, were told Durkee deposited gS4.000.000 In government bond with th treasury department aa a guarantee lor completion of a transcontinental railroad Una and that th value and Interest of the bonds had never been repaid, the dispatch said. Durkee served as territorial governor gover-nor of Utah from lfaU to lie. Ha also served as a United State aenator and waa a resident of Kenosha, Wis. - Advices from Kenosha Indicate that the supposed Durkee claim never existed, ex-isted, and that it is a standard Joke in the region, . . ,. |